It’s been less than 6 months since the IPL 2018 concluded and the anticipation and hype for the upcoming IPL 2019 is already hardening up. Chennai Super Kings won the last edition of the IPL tying up with the 3 titles record of Mumbai Indians.

A few weeks ago the official IPL 2019 schedule, fixtures, venues were announced. And now there is a stipulation that IPL 2019 might not be played in India due to the conduction of Lok Sabha elections in March.

The IPL 2019 player retention and released list of all 8 franchises have been released by the BCCI last Monday.

This list would sure cheer up the fans of David Warner and Sam Smith as they will appear in the upcoming edition of the IPL after sustaining a ban from IPL 2018 after they were banned from all sorts of international cricket for 1 year following the ball tempering scandal.

But there are some big names that were dropped from their respective teams like Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Jaydev Unadkat, Axar Patel, Mohammed Shami and now their future in the IPL is uncertain.

Not only Indian players but some big international stars like Brendon McCullum, Jason Roy, Aaron Finch, JP Duminy, Chris Woakes were also released from their respective teams. The player retention deadline was passed on previous Thursday.

Other than player retention, some trades and transfers were also made on the same day via IPL 2019 Transfer Window. Sunrisers star batsman Shikhar Dhawan has been traded to Delhi Daredevils for Shahbaz Nadeem, Abhishek Sharma, and Vijay Shankar.

King XI Punjab swapped the star Australian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis with the local boy Mandeep Singh of Royal Challenger Bangalore.

Do You Know: IPL 2019 will be played outside India, probably in South Africa

Down Below is the full list of players retained and released by IPL teams

Wrapping Up

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